107 lines
16 KiB
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107 lines
16 KiB
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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
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"lump","Verb","UNKNOWN","2701","With a sickening crackle of bone, the creature's head rotated completely around and bowed, examining the second imperfection of its form, a scarred lump under its lower left shoulder blade.","",""
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"dominate","Verb","B2","2702","Centuries before, powries had dominated the seas in their solid, squat barrelboats, whose hulls Were made of tougher stuff than the larger ships of the humans, as the diminutive powries were made of tougher stuff than the larger humans.","",""
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"hull","Noun","UNKNOWN","2703","Centuries before, powries had dominated the seas in their solid, squat barrelboats, whose hulls Were made of tougher stuff than the larger ships of the humans, as the diminutive powries were made of tougher stuff than the larger humans.","",""
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"tougher","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2704","CHAPTER 10 Made of Tougher Stuff
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Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long!","",""
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"tribe","Noun","UNKNOWN","2705","It would bring them into its fold, tribe by tribe, race by race, growing as the night grows when the sun touches the western horizon.","",""
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"peaceful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2706","""Pray tell me, Master Siherton, was it peaceful?"" he heard himself ask.","",""
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"reverently","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2707","He retrieved his belt and dagger, which he had reverently placed right near his bed, and Elbryan felt powerful as he ceremoniously strapped the weapon about his waist.","",""
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"games","Noun","UNKNOWN","2708","Next spring, Elbryan would hunt with the adults, the games of his youth left behind.","",""
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"afford","Verb","UNKNOWN","2709","Let the younger boys and girls see him then, and afford him the respect he deserved, and let the older men see that the village, under his watchful eye, had fared well in their absence.","",""
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"embarrassment","Noun","UNKNOWN","2710","He could laugh at that embarrassment now, privately or even with Pony.","",""
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"covet","Verb","UNKNOWN","2711","Toward his fellow Preparers, young men he would compete against for the coveted two positions of those who would actually step onto the island of Pimaninicuit, Avelyn felt no rivalry.","",""
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"aura","Noun","UNKNOWN","2712","He didn't quite understand it, nor could he make out the aura of magic surrounding Master Siherton.","",""
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"sponge","Noun","UNKNOWN","2713","Her eyes, huge eyes, were the richest and clearest blue Elbryan had ever seen, like great sponges soaking in the sights of the wide world and reflecting Jilseponie's every mood.","",""
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"inviting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2714","He sensed their softness, so very inviting ...","",""
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"sentence","Noun","UNKNOWN","2715","You have time.""
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That last sentence brought a strange feeling over Elbryan.","",""
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"ascent","Noun","UNKNOWN","2716","That excitement turned to sheer joy when they passed out of the town and began their ascent of the ridge.","",""
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"beautifully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2717","How could anyone, or anything, that could pipe so beautifully pose a danger?","",""
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"shin","Noun","UNKNOWN","2718","She ran up and leaped the eight-foot gap, slamming her shin hard against the higher lip, but driving on, running to her love.","",""
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"maple","Noun","UNKNOWN","2719","He caught the trunk of a young maple and swung about it, turning in the direction of the voice.","",""
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"carcass","Noun","UNKNOWN","2720","The hunters would return with carcasses - elk, caribou, or white-tailed deer - slung on shoulder poles, and it seemed to the watching pair as if this hunt had been successful indeed!","",""
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"object","Noun","UNKNOWN","2721","Not brighter, exactly, but every object became much more distinct.","",""
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"kills","Noun","UNKNOWN","2722","Expressions ran from excitement to awkward fear to blank amazement as the villagers took stock of the kills, especially the last carcass on the shoulder poles, a smallish humanoid form.","",""
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"hideous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2723","The fomorian charged ahead with a tremendous, hideous howl, its cudgel going high.","",""
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"sloping","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2724","""A goblin?"" asked one woman, bending low to regard the creature's hideous features: the sloping forehead and the long thin nose, the tiny but perfectly round eyes, now glazed over, sickly yellow.","",""
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"legendary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2725","Olwan Wyndon nodded, not wanting to get Brody into one of his legendary fits of outrage.","",""
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"recount","Verb","UNKNOWN","2726","Elbryan closed his eyes and recounted the events in his mind.","",""
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"suit","Verb","UNKNOWN","2727","Getting in would be test enough, for the cave was far more suited to one of elven stature.","",""
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"venison","Noun","UNKNOWN","2728","The elves would set out a grand table, steaming stew and venison, sometimes roasted game fowl, and piping hot tea that warmed the boy from his head to his cold toes.","",""
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"noose","Noun","UNKNOWN","2729","The noose was getting tighter, Pony knew.","",""
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"stepping","Noun","UNKNOWN","2730","For Jill, who had spent her life so simply, it seemed somehow obscene; a dozen people could sleep comfortably on that bed, and she needed a stepping stool to even get onto it!","",""
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"brief","Noun","UNKNOWN","2731","Jill had known this air, so crisp and so clean, in her youth, in this place; and images of that past life flitted past the edges of her consciousness now, brief glimpses of what had once been.","",""
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"outnumber","Verb","UNKNOWN","2732","The Coastpoint Guards of Pireth Tulme were fighting well, but they were badly outnumbered and they had lost their one advantage: the walls.","",""
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"slain","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2733","Not until this day, he silently added, looking at the slain goblin.","",""
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"afterward","Noun","UNKNOWN","2734","They lay together for a long time afterward, nestled in their cloaks, saying nothing, staring at the fire.","",""
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"recently","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2735","Afterward, the conversation turned into an exchange of what other people had recently seen, of the report of a goblin sighting in Weedy Meadow, and even a few wild tales from Dundalis folk claiming that they had noticed some huge tracks but just hadn't said anything about it.","",""
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"shed","Noun","UNKNOWN","2736","The monk had shed his telltale brown robe in favor of the more normal dress of a villager.","",""
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"wrestle","Verb","UNKNOWN","2737","Panic hit him, wrestling hard with a jumble of other emotions that Elbryan did not understand.","",""
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"interject","PastTense","UNKNOWN","2738","""The goblins were never here,"" Pony interjected.","",""
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"hanging","Noun","UNKNOWN","2739","All the gang was quiet, hanging on Elbryan's every word.","",""
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"frown","Noun","UNKNOWN","2740","He looked at Pony and winked, and was surprised when she returned the gesture with a serious frown.","",""
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"stoop","Verb","UNKNOWN","2741","Tempest weaved its wondrous lines about him slowly-turning, stooping, and rising in perfect balance.","",""
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"craftsmanship","Noun","UNKNOWN","2742","Avelyn wanted to go closer to it to study the stern facial features and the incredible craftsmanship of the armor.","",""
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"born","Verb","UNKNOWN","2743","Avelyn was the youngest of ten, and his parents had been well into their forties when he was born.","",""
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"recollection","Plural","UNKNOWN","2744","Always working or praying; there were no other recollections of Avelyn to be found.","",""
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"painted","Verb","UNKNOWN","2745","That image, that confirmation, was burned into Avelyn's thoughts as clearly as if it had been painted and magically illuminated on the inside of his eyelids.","",""
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"meditation","Singular","UNKNOWN","2746","They were taught the deepest forms of meditation, where a twenty-minute break afforded them all the recuperation they needed to press on with their training for several more hours.","",""
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"resounding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2747","The huge stone gates of St.-Mere-Abelle slammed shut with a resounding crash that jolted Annalisa Desbris violently.","",""
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"intriguing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2748","She was closer to seventeen than sixteen now, by all appearances no more a girl, and surely the thought of the handsome man imparted intriguing, warm thoughts.","",""
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"details","Noun","UNKNOWN","2749","The tapestries that lined the place were no less magnificent and intriguing, woven into scenes that held a million details in every square foot -
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- sights within sights, subtle lines and smaller images - that caught Avelyn's eyes and his curiosity and would not let them go.","",""
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"myriad","Noun","UNKNOWN","2750","He came up fast on a pair of great bronze doors, inlaid with a myriad of designs and symbols.","",""
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"fur","Noun","UNKNOWN","2751","Along one wall stood a gigantic statue, fifteen feet or more, dressed in a heavy leather jacket, trimmed in fur and set with spiked metal plates and heavy iron rings.","",""
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"rings","Noun","UNKNOWN","2752","More rings, rolling, humming, mounting.","",""
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"cruel","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2753","Brother Justice did so, his head bowed to hide his cruel smile.","",""
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"caps","Noun","UNKNOWN","2754","""These are powries, bloody caps, looking to wet their berets in human blood.","",""
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"habit","Noun","UNKNOWN","2755","Even Elbryan's sleeping habits changed, shifting to a more controlled, meditative process than a lumped time of uncontrollable unconsciousness.","",""
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"classmate","Noun","UNKNOWN","2756","He calmed quickly, though, seeing that all of his classmates were similarly entranced and that the Father Abbot and the other ranking monks seemed not to care.","",""
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"priest","Noun","UNKNOWN","2757","The Order of St.-Mere-Abelle was noted not just for its pious and humble priests but also for their long reputation as fierce warriors.","",""
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"uneventful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2758","Bafway proved to be a long, uneventful month.","",""
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"meat","Noun","UNKNOWN","2759","There was much to be done: the last harvesting, preparing the meat, patching holes in the cottages, and cleaning the chimneys.","",""
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"chimney","Noun","UNKNOWN","2760","Cat rested back against a sooty chimney, the warm bricks taking a bit of the bite from the night chill.","",""
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"remote","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2761","Had they caught him at last, up here in the most remote corner of Honce-the-Bear?","",""
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"imagination","Plural","UNKNOWN","2762","They had taught him to view the world as an elf might, with utter freedom and often more veiled in imagination than reality.","",""
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"temper","Verb","UNKNOWN","2763","All of that was, of course, tempered by her realization that she was, in effect, a deserter.","",""
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"seriously","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2764","The Order of St.-Mere-Abelle took its physical training seriously; perhaps Avelyn was expected to defend himself against such tactics.","",""
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"importance","Noun","UNKNOWN","2765","Dosey interrupted, his tales only for an occasional belch; so lost was he in his own sense of importance that he hardly bothered to gauge the monk's reaction.","",""
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"total","Noun","UNKNOWN","2766","The hunting party of twelve had carried with them more than half the total real weapons of the hundred folk of Dundalis.","",""
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"manhood","Noun","UNKNOWN","2767","There would be a measure in this of his manhood, Avelyn realized, a test he could not fail.","",""
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"invisible","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2768","To Pony and Elbryan, alert as they were, the creature was invisible and unnoticed.","",""
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"maybe","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2769","Or maybe she was just trying to blur the terror.","",""
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"caress","Verb","UNKNOWN","2770","A warm fog hung thick about him, caressing his body and dulling his senses.","",""
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"misery","Noun","UNKNOWN","2771","This was an action of a rogue goblin chieftain, perhaps, or one of the many powrie raiding parties, acting on their own initiative, bringing misery to the wretched humans.","",""
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"mingle","Verb","UNKNOWN","2772","Frustration boiled in the young woman, mingling with desperation.","",""
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"surmise","Verb","UNKNOWN","2773","Pony's first instincts were to try and join that battle group, but she quickly surmised that she would never get in.","",""
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"litany","Noun","UNKNOWN","2774","Silently mouthing that litany, Elbryan inched his face toward the edge of the pine.","",""
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"collapse","Verb","UNKNOWN","2775","A sudden shift brought the field beyond the pines back into view, and Elbryan nearly collapsed with relief when he saw the goblin had not moved and was still facing away from him, staring into the northern valley.","",""
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"spark","Verb","UNKNOWN","2776","That thought sparked anger in the young man, enough to overcome his fear.","",""
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"crawling","Noun","UNKNOWN","2777","He glanced back to see a pair of powries crawling under the war engine, coming for him with prodding spears.","",""
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"grimace","Noun","UNKNOWN","2778","Cat did well to keep the grimace from her face.","",""
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"weirdly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2779","The goblin staggered weirdly, dropped its weapon, and fell to its knees.","",""
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"gash","Noun","UNKNOWN","2780","Elbryan saw the bright red gash, the white of split bone, the grayish brain.","",""
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"dismay","Noun","UNKNOWN","2781","He looked ahead at the evergreen vale and noted to his dismay that a fight was going on down there.","",""
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"sprint","Verb","UNKNOWN","2782","Carefully placing the basket at last at the trough, the boy then sprinted full out the half mile back to the bog.","",""
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"stifle","Verb","UNKNOWN","2783","She took a moment to consider where she was, whose house this was, and she stifled a sob.","",""
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"cries","Noun","UNKNOWN","2784","Everything was confusion, screams and cries of pain.","",""
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"thrash","Gerund","UNKNOWN","2785","The creature went berserk, kicking and thrashing, flopping like a landed fish.","",""
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"fish","Noun","UNKNOWN","2786","The creature went berserk, kicking and thrashing, flopping like a landed fish.","",""
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"thrashing","Noun","UNKNOWN","2787","The pair rolled hard into the trunk of another tree, and the goblin abruptly stopped its thrashing.","",""
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"daughter","Noun","UNKNOWN","2788","He looked plaintively at the corner around which his daughter had run, hoping, praying she would somehow escape.","",""
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"thigh","Noun","UNKNOWN","2789","He felt the sting of the light spears, six of them, in his back, his side, deep in one thigh.","",""
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"mumble","Verb","UNKNOWN","2790","Tears ran freely down his cheeks; he mumbled the name ""Dansally,"" over and over.","",""
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"casually","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2791","And all hope flew from him as a fomorian giant, holding a club as large as Elbryan's entire body, casually walked toward him.","",""
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"clamp","PastTense","UNKNOWN","2792","Cat-the-Stray clamped her teeth over one of his knuckles and bit him hard.","",""
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"securely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2793","Thus she kept her cabin door securely locked.","",""
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"released","Verb","UNKNOWN","2794","The giant released its grip and Elbryan fell to the ground.","",""
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"crank","Noun","UNKNOWN","2795","But it was Avelyn's turn to crank, and the taskmasters were particular about such things.","",""
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"appropriately","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2796","They were opposites in temperament, as well: Avelyn calm and reverent, always in control, and Quintall a ""firework,"" as Master Siherton, the class overseer, often appropriately referred to him.","",""
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"tan","Verb","UNKNOWN","2797","Jojonah's skin was tanned and smooth, except for a fan of lines spreading out from each of his eyes - ""credibility wrinkles,"" he called them.","",""
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"received","Verb","UNKNOWN","2798","""We received news this day that his mother died,"" Siherton said evenly.","",""
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"sincerity","Noun","UNKNOWN","2799","It was obvious that Avelyn had loved his mother dearly, and yet, there was a sincerity in his.","",""
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"carve","Verb","UNKNOWN","2800","Twin rows of massive columns, each carved into the likeness of a giant warrior, lined the room.","","" |